Biography:
Gretchen Peters (born November 14, 1957 in Bronxville, New York) is an American singer-songwriter in the folk/country genre. An accomplished song-writer, she won the Country Music Association Song Of The Year award in 1994 for "Independence Day", a hit at the time for Martina McBride. She was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2014.
Though born in New York, Peter's was raised in Boulder, Colorado, and then moved to Nashville in the late 1980s.
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Other songs:
- Billy 4
- Black Ribbons
- Blackbirds
- Blessing In Disguise
- Border Town
- Careful How You Go
- Child Of Mine
- Circus Girl
- Dark Angel
- December Child
- Drowning In You
- Everything Falls Away
- Five Minutes
- Germantown
- Ghost
- Guadalupe
- Hello Cruel World
- I Aint Ever Satisfied
- I Dont Know
- I Was Looking For You
- I Wonder As I Wander
- Idlewild
- If Heaven
- If I Had A Gun
- In The Bleak Midwinter
- Independence Day
- Jubilee
- Lilies Of The Field
- Love And Texaco
- Love That Makes A Cup Of Tea
- Northern Lights
- On A Bus To St Cloud
- On A Bus To Stcloud
- Over Africa
- Paradise Found
- Picasso And Me
- Prairie In The Sky
- Pretty Things
- Revival
- Saint Francis
- Song For A Winters Night
- Souvenirs
- Sunday Morning Up And Down My Street
- The Aviators Song
- The House On Auburn Street
- The Matador
- The Way You Move Me
- This Town
- This Used To Be My Town
- To Say Goodbye
- Tomorrow Morning
- Truckstop Angel
- Waitin On Mary
- Waiting For Amelia
- Waiting For The Light
- Waiting For The Light To Turn Green
- When All You Got Is A Hammer
- When You Are Old
- When You Comin Home
- Wild Horses
- Woman On The Wheel
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Gretchen Peters - Waitin' On Mary
CAPO: 3rd Fret
INTRO: G C (4x)
G C
Joseph walked to Bethlehem
G D
Found no room there at the inn
G C Em
And knowing not what was to be
D C
He lay beside her patiently___
D G C G C
Waitin' on Mary__
G C
The shepherds watched, the stars grew bright
G D
The angel said, "It's gonna be alright
G C
Just have some faith, just wait and see
Em D C
A miracle will come to be___
D G C G C
Waitin' on Mary__"
BRIDGE:
C G Am
And after all these centuries
D G
The world still has its refugees
C G Em F
The losers in the human race
Am G C
But with the most amazing grace
D G C G C
They're waitin' on Mary__ (on Mary)
G C
Faraway on some dark hill
G D
There are faithful waiting still
G C Em
Who have no hope but still believe
D C
Maybe tonight is Christmas eve___
D G C G
And they're waitin' on Mary__ (on Mary)
D G C G C G C G C G
Waitin' on Mary__ (on Mary) (Mary)
CAPO: 3rd Fret
INTRO: G C (4x)
G C
Joseph walked to Bethlehem
G D
Found no room there at the inn
G C Em
And knowing not what was to be
D C
He lay beside her patiently___
D G C G C
Waitin' on Mary__
G C
The shepherds watched, the stars grew bright
G D
The angel said, "It's gonna be alright
G C
Just have some faith, just wait and see
Em D C
A miracle will come to be___
D G C G C
Waitin' on Mary__"
BRIDGE:
C G Am
And after all these centuries
D G
The world still has its refugees
C G Em F
The losers in the human race
Am G C
But with the most amazing grace
D G C G C
They're waitin' on Mary__ (on Mary)
G C
Faraway on some dark hill
G D
There are faithful waiting still
G C Em
Who have no hope but still believe
D C
Maybe tonight is Christmas eve___
D G C G
And they're waitin' on Mary__ (on Mary)
D G C G C G C G C G
Waitin' on Mary__ (on Mary) (Mary)
Grey Eye Glances
Grey Haze
Grey Holiday
Grey Kingdom
Grey Revell